hmrabi--Govern Ancient Sumeria Try your hand at governing ancient Sumeria Successfully for a 10-year term of office. Would you like more information? y Description In this game you direct the adminitrator of Sumeria, Hammurabi, how to manage the city. The city initially has 1,000 acres, 100 people and 3,000 bushels of grain in storage. You may buy and sell land with your neighboring city-states for bushels of grain--the price will vary between 17 and 26 bushels per acre. You also must use grain to feed your people and as seed to plant the next year's crop. You will quickly find that a certain number of people can only tend a certain amount of land and that people starve if they are not fed anough. You also have the unexpected to contend with such as a plague, rats destroying stored grain, and variable harvests. You will also find that managing just the few resources in this game is not a trivial job over a period of say ten years. The crisis of population density rears its head very rapidly. Source This program translated to Pascal, Java and C by Eric Olson from 101 BASIC Computer Games by David Ahl. In turn that program was translated from the original FOCAL program which was floating around DIGITAL in the late 1970's. Please enter a random seed between 0 and 29282: 1235 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 1 , 0 people starved, 5 came to the city. Population is now 100 The city now owns 1000 acres. You harvested 3 bushels per acre. Rats ate 200 bushels. You now have 2800 bushels in store. Land is trading at 18 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 0 How many acres do you wish to sell? 0 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 2000 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 999 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 2 , 0 people starved, 5 came to the city. A horrible plague struck! Half the people died. Population is now 52 The city now owns 1000 acres. You harvested 1 bushels per acre. Rats ate 150 bushels. You now have 1150 bushels in store. Land is trading at 20 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 0 How many acres do you wish to sell? 0 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 1040 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 220 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 3 , 0 people starved, 8 came to the city. A horrible plague struck! Half the people died. Population is now 30 The city now owns 1000 acres. You harvested 2 bushels per acre. Rats ate 0 bushels. You now have 440 bushels in store. Land is trading at 22 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 0 How many acres do you wish to sell? 300 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 600 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 600 But you have only 30 people to tend the fields. Now then, How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 500 But you have only 30 people to tend the fields. Now then, How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 400 But you have only 30 people to tend the fields. Now then, How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 300 But you have only 30 people to tend the fields. Now then, How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 299 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 4 , 0 people starved, 14 came to the city. A horrible plague struck! Half the people died. Population is now 22 The city now owns 700 acres. You harvested 1 bushels per acre. Rats ate 0 bushels. You now have 6590 bushels in store. Land is trading at 19 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 100 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 440 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 219 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 5 , 0 people starved, 38 came to the city. Population is now 60 The city now owns 800 acres. You harvested 1 bushels per acre. Rats ate 0 bushels. You now have 4360 bushels in store. Land is trading at 17 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 100 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 1200 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 599 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 6 , 0 people starved, 4 came to the city. Population is now 64 The city now owns 900 acres. You harvested 3 bushels per acre. Rats ate 580 bushels. You now have 2378 bushels in store. Land is trading at 20 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 0 How many acres do you wish to sell? 100 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 1280 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 639 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 7 , 0 people starved, 11 came to the city. Population is now 75 The city now owns 800 acres. You harvested 4 bushels per acre. Rats ate 0 bushels. You now have 5335 bushels in store. Land is trading at 22 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 100 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 1500 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 749 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 8 , 0 people starved, 3 came to the city. Population is now 78 The city now owns 900 acres. You harvested 3 bushels per acre. Rats ate 315 bushels. You now have 3193 bushels in store. Land is trading at 22 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 0 How many acres do you wish to sell? 0 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 1560 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 779 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 9 , 0 people starved, 12 came to the city. Population is now 90 The city now owns 900 acres. You harvested 5 bushels per acre. Rats ate 0 bushels. You now have 5139 bushels in store. Land is trading at 23 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 75 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 1800 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 899 Hammurabi: I beg to report to you, In year 10 , 0 people starved, 6 came to the city. A horrible plague struck! Half the people died. Population is now 48 The city now owns 975 acres. You harvested 4 bushels per acre. Rats ate 0 bushels. You now have 4761 bushels in store. Land is trading at 21 bushels per acre. How many acres do you wish to buy? 75 How many bushels do you wish to feed your people? 960 How many acres do you wish to plant with seed? 479 In your 10-year term of office 0.0 percent of the population starved per year on average, i.e., a total of 0 people died!! You started with 10 acres per person and ended with 21.9 acres per person. A fantastic performance!!! Charlemange, Disraeli, and Jefferson combined could not have done better! Would you like to continue playing? no So long for now.